Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Hill Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: Spam? label Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:05:22 +0100 Organization: timil.com Lines: 46 Message-ID: <52d34599f0tim@invalid.org.uk> References: <52cdfb395agraham@gjenkins.me.uk> <52cdffa2eePaul@sprie.nl> <52ce15ac51graham@gjenkins.me.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: GqAcIUbqh27oTTI3Dt5hJw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04c (RISC-OS/5.18) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:6659 In article , Kevin Wells wrote: > In message Jeremy > Nicoll - news posts > wrote: > >There's a way (which I can't quite remember) to write a RO filename - > >myfile\pdf or myfile/pdf or something which would cause it to arrive > >at the web space named myfile.pdf (or once it was uploaded just as > >myfile, you coud rename it via FTPc) so that the final URL was > >something like http://gjenkins.me.uk/myfile.pdf - which it needs to be > >so that other people downloading the file do see it as a PDF one. > > > It would be myfile/pdf And you could upload a (text or HTML) file called index/htm (index.htm) alongside it which contains only one line. (You can dress the file up with lots more <...> stuff but this isn't usually vital.) Providing a link on a web page to a local file = not hard and not to be shied away from as 'scary'!!! Note: some ISPs insist that all files kept in their web space is linked locally for the outside world to get at. I think this is an attempt to stop people using free web spaces as personal/private 'cloud' storage. If you want that, and have something other than RISC OS, you should be using Dropbox which allows you to share specific files (or whole directories) with a simple link. These days, you should probably also be setting up a Facebook page and sharing your content there too. And on Twitter and .... the choices are endless. Almost. Example 'simple links' page here: http://tjrh.eu/p Enjoy the photos. Please adapt the HTML or the letter for your nuisance callers. :-) -- from Tim Hill who welcomes incoming email to tim at timil dot com. * Share in a better energy supplier: http://tjrh.eu/coopnrg * Share in cheaper ethical telecoms: http://tjrh.eu/phone * Have a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/ Batman, I never thought of that. You're right." Batman: "It's the very essence of our democracy."